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In message <em21b5c00f-6f56-4671-b498-5a198dc090e9@bombed>, "Adrien W. de Croy"
writes:
>Also why transmit the host every request when it hardly ever changes.
Just because your installation doesn't see it changing, doesn't mean
that it "hardly ever changes" for everybody else :-)
A load-balancer in front of a web-hosting farm will often see
many different hosts requested on the same connection, in particular
if the connection comes from a proxy.
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